In Short Supply: Small Farmers and the Struggle to Deliver Healthy Food to Your Plate
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- "In Short Supply" is an official selection of the 2012 United Nations Association Film Festival and will screen in the San Francisco Bay Area in October 2012. Learn more: bit.ly/OMBD1x
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The American food system doesn't make it easy for small farmers to get their healthy food to your home, but meet two farmers who are trying: Ricky Horton and Sherilyn Shepard. They're siblings who grow tomatoes, cucumbers, and other vegetables in southwestern Virginia. Their livelihood is filled with uncertainties ranging from unpredictable weather to changing immigration laws. Here's their story.
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You can learn more about the issues in this video by reading Bread for the World Institute's 2012 Hunger Report: www.hungerrepor...
To contact Appalachian Harvest, the organization featured in this film, visit: asdevelop.org/a...
So proud to say I am the son of a small farmer. Truly make me happy.
when i saw that guy cry at the end it broke my heart
The challenges of real life most city folks don't know about salute all small farmers
small time farmers getting crushed and too stupid to move out the way
@globalwarming5050 who do you blame for that?
Bravo, great film. What it left out was information about the US Farm Bill. If you are interested in helping to support small farmers who grow the fruits and vegetables we need, please look into the Farm Bill. Also, every dollar we spend either supports the big farmers or the farmers who really needs our support - people buy from farmers markets as much as possible - buy local, buy organic. Stop buying processed foods that are made with corn, soy, wheat
18 acres,43 chickens, one pig, 2 freezers, 5 beehives, and 2 huge hearts that understand those tears from the gentleman at the end. At the end of our first year, we are already being forced out by big ag.
SugarBeatCo you are not forced out by "big Ag" you are forced out by consumers , consumers drive demand
The woman that was marketing for the small farms was a true Lifesaver for these farmers.
Thank you for showing Reality. I personally support farmer's market and small farmers. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
thanks to all the farmers that grow are foods if it wasnt for you guys are world wouldnt be what it is today farmers make the world go around because without them we wouldnt have food so thanks alot
I choked up when the gentleman being interviewed around 11 minutes in choked up...bless his heart...I feel the same though. It's heartbreaking to see what our nation is doing to itself. We're on a steadily accelerating downhill slide and the projections for our children do not look good...
If it's difficult to make a living on a small farm in the US, can you imagine how hard it is for us in Central America? The treaties we have with developed countries do not have benefits for us. Cattle and pig raising here, for example, cannot compete with the meat imported from you. People are selling their land because farming is not profitable anymore. That's why we understand these farmers in the video.
One farm I tried to get a job on wanted me to move into their property so they could charge me room and board and then pay a little over that. No OT, no days off during the non-winter period.
I'm glad this is show as an example of these wonderful folks that try their way or carry on a family farm im from eastern oklahoma I've lived on a small farm for my entire life and I'm trying to change it to something profitable and support my community
God love the Brother and Sister .
Thanks. I am starting to plant more Thai chili, avocado(which will take a while), basil etc. on my back yard.
nice family ! loved growing up on the farm.
I just came across this video on RUclips, it's amazing, you could be talking about England here. I'm a small vegetable grower in NW England and we have exactly the same problems here. The UK relies too much on imported vegetables because our supermarkets dominate and won't give small growers who are producing healthy, locally home grown quality produce, a chance.
Not to mention the lack of Labour to pick the vegetables since the new restrictions.
@SweetHomeOrganics Thanks for taking the time to watch this and comment. We appreciate your thoughts.
Good luck to you.
I am forever searching for farm land I can afford. So glad to see there are small farmers out there.
OMG I about died when you said their commission is 33%... YIKES!!!
We always see American Farmers sitting down to Eggs, toast, bacon and warm Biscuits on a casual sunny morning.
I feel like this should be called. "Small Farms. It's Depressing!" I run a small farm on 20 acres and I've lost weight working hard and my health has increased eating my own produce. I have the community behind me and my income has shot up. I know I'm not in the minority either! There are two sides to every coin.
True! The farmers they're showing here are growing more than vegetables - look at that belly! I don't believe he works hard everyday lol
Wow
Thank you!
I always have to laugh when someone refers to huge wheat subsidies. Really? Our subsidy consists of a discount on the *mandatory* crop insurance they require us to buy.
@qualqui You're welcome. Please share so we can educate the public about this issue.
Start small scale at home at community garden growing heirloom tomatoes, peppers, basil mostly small quantity to see how they do and try to sell some to small markets. Sold a few seedlings to local home gardeners.
great film, important issue. Thanks for producing this.
The $5000 they are taking off the top is crazy. Better setup a road side stand.
Yeah, your Appalachian harvest co-op is really helping you to the tune of 1/3 of your income just for them
Makes a loan shark look like a good deal
The only vote that counts is the one we cast with our pocketbooks. It's worth it... for the flavor if nothing else!
God bless
Great little movie! Very well, nicely and beautifully done to to address these problems.
excellent movie...
VERY NICE, ❤❤❤
Straight up dude.I lost 80 lbs. on the Low Carb Diet...
Grow canned or frozen. These plants are less than 20 miles from your field.
Damn at ole boy is passionate about vegetables ain't he! Lol
these people need to wake up and make an change, unfortunately self pity is one hell of a drug
Thumbs up ya all, a truly interestin' video!! = )
Like the Video. Thanks! Hard watching the guy choke up at the end. Maybe one day large scale permaculture will change things around. Cheers.
or we could drop the cotton subs and the corn, and the wheat..
I think the small farmer is very important for america. For one I think they should not have to pay taxes in order to help them survive.
No need to generalize with migrant labor. My area has Hmong crews of 15 or so that go from farm to farm. When they're with us they are right in the dirt with the 15 local laborers. This past summer we had one day when they refused to work because of the heat. Shortly after they left our boss told us to call it a day as well. The ability to put in hard work is an individual issue. One lazy person can bring down everyone's motivation.
grow your own help the old be kind
I need this visa
good luck to you. i live tucson and can't afford 5 dollars a tomatoe please fix this problem…all farms should be tax free under our constitution…free water and electric….we need to stop starving our people...
Mark Furrer how would you like to work for free?
You could start growing your own food.
It only takes one farmer to have a bad pack out. fda is very stick on packing. it's very hard. A good maket means SAVE! If you don't you will find yourself in harder times. 1 in 5 years you can make a good profit.
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@jamescc2010 Good luck with your organic farm!
The farm in this video you 2 are on do you ever sell to nc i would buy from you i would buy in bulk let me know
Too many politicians getting contributions from wealthy commodity farmer groups. Need to cut corporate welfare to the large commodity farms and give it to the family farmers growing real food.
Yes, I have large commodity farmers in my family. Very well off but always complaining about crop prices while they spend 2 weeks in Mexico on vacation every year.
I understand they’re problems with finding labor. The US govt pays too much in welfare benefits so why would they want to work. Cut off welfare.
Why doesn't he clean the dashboard off. Dirty can't he see that.
Great film the problem is it’s a broken government, the US government they care more about foreign farmers in foreign countries then they own.if this continues we will become a Third World country depending on other nations to give us food so now they have the upper hand,if they don’t like us they don’t have to give us food so ask yourself what are we doing to ourselves
Please I donot meen to be offended but I what to let anyone know, but this has to do with all types of employment around the country and that is in today would that we live in there is no one in the labor employment work force anymore that want,s to work to make ends meet but would like to have some money left over to enjoy them selfs and to buy the items that we that we all need to live that so,so many of us can't afford any more in our way of living $12.00 or even $14.50 in not even enough of money to live off of to make ends meet anymore ..😢😮
Hydroponics are going to take over.
We will need to do things differently to make t work. Vertical growing, greenhouse/hoophouse and perhaps direct marketing from grower to consumer. Perhaps a collective Website based on local community growers. Cut out the middle man. We are looking to keep jobs here in the US. There should be some Gov. support and incentive. We need to stop importing fake eggs and saw dust parmesan cheese and take care of ourselves.
Why are you a farmer? That’s like asking a fish why it swims. Cause that’s what it’s born to do!
you know there is a market a pretty decent one for organic tobacco ... question is local labor not willing to do that job because your not willing to pay them enough to feed there families to do it as well... just saying.. i dont like hikes in the cost in fruit and veggie but id pay an extra bit if it said fairly paid labor
If anyone needs help with their farm in North Carolina, I will help for free.
Honest hands here...
GREEN CARDS?? DISCERNMENT PLEASE. 😊
People that collect welfare should be put to work in the fields. We shouldn't have to import our field hands.
I don't understand, those people raise organic food and breath freash air, they need to be skinny...why they sooooo faatttt...????)))))
skinny die fast when a tough time comes
That's a good point ))))))
solution:
contract farming.
and dont need to tell the govt about it
People always complain about the hispanic People but with out them usa its nothing,, no matter how big or small is the farm they always gonna hire some hispanic to help them survive.😳
great news.